This photograph shows Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the All-India Muslim League Working Committee at the League’s annual session held in Lucknow, India, in October 1937. At this session Jinnah called upon League members to formulate new policies and programmes which would be crucial in shaping the future of Muslims in India. Until 1937 the League was primarily an organisation of elite Indian Muslims. However, under Jinnah’s leadership, the party began to mobilise more widely, with the aim of becoming a popular party among the Muslim masses; League-organised processions and strikes started to attract large crowds throughout India. 

About the prints from the India Office Library & Record’s 1976 Jinnah Exhibition

These photographic prints come from a collection that the India Office Library & Records displayed at the 1976 Jinnah Exhibition in London. The photographs were obtained from a variety of sources, including the Pakistan High Commission, with the images recording the political career of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The collection also includes images of other notable figures, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lord Frederick Pethick-Lawrence.